hi,

after some soul-searching, i'm seriously inching towards hard-mounting a
long whip on the top of my car. does anybody out there know of any
relatively foolproof -- and definitely leakproof! -- procedure for
intalling a roof mount? i'm considering one of those ball mounts, so
that i can easily adjust the whip angle.

i should mention that i do have a luggage rack, so i could always attach
to that. i am a bit cocerned, though, that the stresses placed by a
'whipping' 102" whip on a luggage rack might be too much for it. any
thoughts on this?

thanks much!

thor